There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic. — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that.… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
“I wonder at times if we're not all blind. It just seems there are an abundance of books unread, paint strokes not… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated;… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Mr. In-Between' very quickly when I was about 23. I wrote the penultimate chapter, then realised I'd done something which… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
“Writing is one of the loneliest professions in the world because it has to be practiced in this very separate private world,… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I just kind of talk about what's happening in my life and it's kind of like a therapy session. Usually something good… — Loren Gray Copy Share Image
I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
“The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
